1.) sleep() is in seconds - plain old seconds - so sleep(300) == 5 minutes.
2.) yes - send, sleep, send, ...
--Joe
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:09:05PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> hi,
>
> thanks again. questions:
>
> 1. sleep(300) would mean pause by 300 mins, right? That's why i thought you
> mean usleep(300) - 300 microseconds. please comment
> 2. what you mean is i will send 5000 emails, then pause and send again?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> > I send roughly 1M of these and put a sleep() (not usleep - that's
> microseconds)
> > into the while loop - I've come up with a decent balance that sends out a
> good
> > number (like 5000) and then sleeps just long enough to get them out of
> qmail's
> > queue, then it sends another 5000 (and so on).
> >
> > Usually takes about 24 hours to send out 1M messages.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:36:33PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> > > thanks for the comment
> > >
> > > let's just say i have 100k emails to send... don't you think that will
> drain
> > > the system resources if i send it all at once even if you have
> usleep(300)
> > > on each while?
> > >
> > > your comment please.
> > >
> > > > put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my
> mass
> > > > mailer and it worked like a charm.
> > > >
> > > > --Joe
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> > > > > hi there.
> > > > >
> > > > > is there a way to tell crontab to do:
> > > > >
> > > > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour"..
> > > > >
> > > > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to
> chunk
> > > into
> > > > > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > > >
> > > >
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